Hypernormalisation

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BodyButter

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Did anyone watch Adam Curtis's latest documentary last night?

I managed to catch it on the iPlayer.

I would normally assume that it wasn't the kind of thing that VV would be interested in but things have taken an 'interesting' turn on here recently.
 
I haven't watched the documentary however I just googled this term and its come up with this from their wiki

HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on the BBC iPlayer

The term "hypernormalisation" is taken from Alexei Yurchak's 2006 book Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, about the paradoxes of life in the Soviet Union during the late communist period shortly before it collapsed, when everyone knew the system was failing but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo and politicians and citizens were resigned to maintaining a pretence of a functioning society.

Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the "fakeness" was accepted by everyone as real, an effect which Yurchak termed "hypernormalisation"

Yup I'm not surprised at all that this is happening right now with western society
 
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